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Project 2 - Self-Assessment Assignment: The Personality Disorders-DSM-5 (PID-5) Assessment
Personality (PY 370)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Self-Assessment Assignment: The Personality Disorders-DSM-5 (PID-5) Assessment Tool
The PID-5 is a clinically useful assessment tool that is designed to assess your personality along 5 clinically relevant personality dimensions. Although there is no absolute “cut-off” score that distinguishes “normal” from “abnormal,” it can be useful to look at the “peaks” and “valleys” of your profile of scores to see where you may score highest and lowest. This instrument is not a diagnostic tool, per se; it does not enable the diagnosis of a personality disorder, for example. But it does provide a snapshot of your emotional and behavioral tendencies in a way that could suggest emotional or behavioral patterns that could cause stress or distress, or that might be useful to help guild treatment or behavior change.
Our goal is educational and not therapeutic. You have been given a copy of the short form of the PID-5 and asked to describe yourself along each of the 25 items. Once you have done that, you will score it as follows:
Scoring:
The PID-5 provides scores along 5 clinically relevant dimensions (see below). Each of these dimensions is reflected in a sub-scale score, which themselves are composed of 5 items. Subscale scores are calculated by simply counting up your ratings for each of those 5 items. Because each item is scored from 0 to 3, this means that each of your 5 subscales should have a total score between 0 and 15. Adding all of your subscale scores together at the end will give you a total score of 0 to 75. Calculate your scores and then enter them below.
MY SCORE
____12______Negative Affectivity (vs. Emotional Stability) Item numbers: 8, 9, 10, 11, 15
____4_____Detachment (vs. Extroversion) Item numbers: 4, 13, 14, 16, 18
_____3_____Antagonism (vs. Agreeableness) Item numbers: 17, 19, 20, 22, 25
____9___Disinhibition (vs. Conscientiousness) Item numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
____13_____Psychoticism (vs. Lucidity) 7, 12, 21, 23, 24
41 TOTAL SCORE
Interpretation
There are no “right” or “wrong” answers to the PID-5, nor does it intended to lead to a diagnosis. Higher scores, however, reflect relatively higher levels of clinical concern. The total score reflects overall levels of potential personality dysfunction. Higher scores indicate greater dysfunction. Overall scores of 50 or greater would be indicators of emotional significant emotional dysfunction along one or more of the five dimensions deserving of clinical attention. Scores between 25 and 49 would reflect potential concerns regarding overall personality function and selected patterns of emotional and behavioral responses and regulation. Scores between 0 and 25 would reflect normal levels of personality function and relatively effective levels of behavior and emotional regulation. Differences in the five subscale scores may reflect a pattern of “peaks” and “valleys” that may provide additional information regarding aspects of personality function, regardless of the level of function suggested by the Total Score.
Subscale Interpretation
Subscale scores could range from 0 to 15 for each of the 5 dimensions. In general, scores in the 10-15 range would indicate significant emotional or behavioral dysfunction along a given dimension. Scores between 5 and 9 would indicate potential concerns in emotional or behavioral patterns related to that dimension, and scores of 0 to 5 would reflect normal personality function and relatively effective behavioral and emotional variation.
Each of the dimensions is described by a dominant trait or characteristic, but those are composed of a set of sub-traits or characteristics. In making sense of your scores, it may be helpful to look at the sub-traits that inform each of the dimensions, and the specific definitions or characterizations associated with those. Look at your highest subscale score or scores and see if any of these characterizations fit with your own experience or perceptions of yourself.
Negative Affectivity. Frequent and intense experiences of high levels of a wide range of negative emotions (e., anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, worry, anger) and their behavioral (e., self-harm) and interpersonal (e., dependency) manifestations. May include emotional lability (e. ups and downs), anxiousness, separation insecurity, submissiveness, hostility, perseveration (doing the same thing after failure), depressiveness, suspiciousness, or restricted affectivity.
Detachment. Avoidance of socioemotional experience, including both withdrawal from interpersonal interactions (ranging from casual, daily interactions to friendships to intimate relationships) and restricted affective experience and expression, particularly limited hedonic (i., feelings) capacity. May include withdrawal, intimacy avoidance, anhedonia (absence of feelings), depressiveness, restricted affectivity or suspiciousness.
Antagonism. Behavioral that put the individual at odds with other people, including an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a concomitant expectation of special treatment, as well as a callous antipathy toward others, encompassing both an unawareness of others’ needs and feelings and a readiness to use others in the service of self-enhancement. May include manipulativeness, deceitfulness, grandiosity, attention seeking, and callousness.
Disinhibition: They impulse buy without thinking of how much something is. Psychoticism: They fantasize and daydream a lot about their celebrity crushes.
● Reflect on your experience in taking this PID-5 assessment and interpreting its scores. What was your experience like and what, if anything, did you learn as a result?
I don't think I exhibit a lot of negative emotions. I’m an overall happy person; I just suffer from anxiety from time to time. Everything else in this assessment is accurate to me though.
Project 2 - Self-Assessment Assignment: The Personality Disorders-DSM-5 (PID-5) Assessment
Course: Personality (PY 370)
University: University of Alabama at Birmingham
